Posted by Sherman in Idaho [24.32.202.166] on Sunday, July 28, 2013 at 00:28:00 :
In Reply to: M37 in a WW2 movie posted by Tim Holloway [69.54.28.229] on Saturday, July 27, 2013 at 22:04:18 :
People who eat sausage and obey the law shouldn't watch either one being made.
And probably people who know their military vehicles, weapons, and uniforms shouldn't watch war movies. You would think that with the budgets that movies have, and all the rentals available, they could use the right vehicles, especially in those old movies when there were still surplus WWII vehicles available cheap.
I have to say the worst part of the Guns of Navarrone and the Bridge Over the River Kawai to me were the big demolition scenes at the end. In Navarrone, it was clearly just a very small scale model being "blown up", and in Kwai the whole thing was about sappers planting the explosives around the footings of the bridge, but then when they filmed it you can clearly see all the TNT demolition charges cutting the structural members at the ends of the trusses.
Of course if they made it nowadays, it would all be CGI, which means there'd be no excuse for using the wrong kind of vehicles, but also the fire and smoke would look like video games. At least in the old days, the movie-makers didn't have to deal with environmental regulations and they could make all the real fire and smoke they wanted.
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